http://naanooreen.blogsome.com Life is short...serve Allah and enjoy... Thu, 26 May 2005 00:47:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’m a Piscean. People say that Pisceans are dreamy yet very obedient. When it comes to game, I’m confused. My dreamy character suppose to love emergence narrative where you can only know what happen to the game as you play it. Just like the SIM series where you can chose ... http://naanooreen.blogsome.com/2005/05/26/which-is-better-in-a-game-emerging-embedded-or-combined-narrative/ A few weeks ago in Emerging Media class, a photoblog website Flickr was introduced to me. Eventhough I’ m very familliar with photoblogging through my own photoblog, Fotopages, Flickr is an interesting website since it enables users to post pictures directly from the handphone. Digi LifeLogger Digi is one of the ... http://naanooreen.blogsome.com/2005/05/25/convergence-of-mobile-phone-photoblog/ I’ve read an article on the use of smart card in a high school in Malaysia to check students’ attendance a few days ago. It is an interesting to see that local high schools are embracing technology in day to day activities. It took teachers to go through a long ... http://naanooreen.blogsome.com/2005/05/22/smart-cards-8/ Reading some articles on instant messaging reminds me of my first encounter with mIRC, the first programme that I used to communicate real-time, online. That was 10 years ago. Now, there are so many different instant messenger both commercial and corporate that they are competing to provide many more enhancement ... http://naanooreen.blogsome.com/2005/05/10/instant-messaging/ It was funny for me before since I’m learning so many things about technology this semester yet did not even own a 3G phone. But last week, for the first time I won the bid in eBay. It was my third bidding experience although I never did win before. The ... http://naanooreen.blogsome.com/2005/05/07/my-new-used-phone/ This article reminds me on something I watched on TV once before where a man is leading a double life somewhere else. A life full of happiness which is the extreme opposite of the other. It seems bizarre before but in the age of internet like now, nearly everyone leads ... http://naanooreen.blogsome.com/2005/05/06/a-review-on-sherry-turkles-identity-in-the-age-of-the-internet/ In producing a game, some may do it for the love of the game and others just to make money. Most successful games does not start from scratch but the idea of those games came from other forms of narrative such as movies or songs. Likewise, if a game is ... http://naanooreen.blogsome.com/2005/04/06/game-based-on-movies/ Both readings focuses on innovation and design from different perspectives. Silverstone and Haddon have discussed the matter in a more academic and theoretical way whereas Kahney’s article focuses more on practicality of design. In Silverstone and Haddon’s article, they have listed three interrelated dimensions involved in design which are creating the ... http://naanooreen.blogsome.com/2005/04/06/a-review-on-roger-silverstones-and-leslie-haddons-article-on-design-and-a-chapter-of-leander-kahneys-the-cult-of-mac/ At first when the biography of the author was read, the excitement to see such a bright person who is interested in technology and has excel in the area gave quite a challenge to me to follow her footsteps. Although I maybe a few years late in establishing myself but ... http://naanooreen.blogsome.com/2005/04/05/a-review-on-sadie-plants-on-the-mobile-the-effects-of-mobile-telephones-on-social-and-individual-life/ Both readings by Marvin and Milne discussed the history and development of media communication in the nineteenth century. The discussion in Marvin’s article has a broad perspective of media compared to Milne’s article which mainly focuses on the use of visiting cards. Marvin describes that the invention of telegraph was the ... http://naanooreen.blogsome.com/2005/04/04/a-review-on-extracts-from-caroly-marvins-and-esther-milnes-articles/